The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-02-06

jority of their colleagues who favor him.
Rather tkan sacrifice the Office, these men
may be permitted to accomplish their fob
ject So mach the worse for them. The
result would be to make Mr. Albeit po-
liticsl MARTYR and to render certain his
election in place of Mr.. MCPHERSON. New
ark Call
In little article about State Prison con-
victs, the Paterson ''Guardian" says: sCarr,
the octogenarian u1orclde. whose crime
was one of the most revolving ever brought
to light by the machinery of the
law in this county, was reported dead sew
eral years ago. but is ssdE living. It Is said
that he is likely to celebrate his centennial
birthday, being apparently man of iron.
His teeth are as perfect and strong as
those of young man. Carr beat his aged
wife's brains out with a club on their own
hearthstone, after having led her a long
and toifsome way through thu swamps and
woods of Bergen county one Sunday after
noon and evening in search-as was as.
sumed at his trial-of suitable place to-
kill her, where no one would have found
the body for many days, if ever"
Il good story is being told of Assembly
man McDermitt, of Essex county. When
Frank was a youth he commenced the
when he commenced to assume an import
ance at home. The consequence was that
his father severely reprimanded him, on
account of which the young man lef home
and henceforth slept at the Office where he
was studying. One day his father called at
the Office with the inteation of making
known the conduct of bis son to theiawyer.
On entering the office he asked his rusza-
way boy whether Lawyer Blank was m.
To which Frank replied, mo, but he
would soon return" The old man waited
for some time in silence. At last he rose
to leave. opened the door. when Frank
cried out: Say, mister, who shall 1 say
called ?" The old gentleman looked at him
for moment, and then said 'sNever
mind, my boy I'll make that all right"
Frank returned home in short time and
became good boy Elizabeth Herald
"A pretty case, as showing the kind of a
man Speaker Baird and his Clerk, Kern.
are, las come to light in the last few days,
When the unholy deal which made Baird
Speaker was consummated, Mr.. Ernest
o. chamberlain was temporarily appointed
his Clerk The salary is 5000. Mr. Cham
berlain did two weeks actual service and
spent another week coaching the unsophis-
ticated Kern. Then the two made writ
fen agreement, which was flei with State
Treasurer Toffey, whereby Chamberlain
was to receive 500 of Kern's allotment.
Kern afterward regretted having signed
the agreement and about ten days ago told
Chamberlain that as Bard had done 50
much for the Republicans, and Chamber
Iain being Republican himself, he (Cham-
berlain) should be willing to rescind the
agreement. Chamberlain protested. The
matter was referred to the Speaker. who
eot.- l. 80.
thereupon, said Chamberlain should not
have the 500. State Treasurer Toffey to-
Kern he could do nothing but comply
with the terms of the agreement, unless
Chamberlain willed otherwise Chamber
lain then, to avoid any talk over the matter,
paid Kern $40 to keep his agreement.
-Assemblyman Dickinson who went
to ask Senator Sewell whether he was still
in the race for Senator said after the inter-
view, to the Newark News" correspond
ent: 81 never had moe unpleasant
task. Senator Sewell became very pas
sionate when | talked with him and de-
clared that while his name was Sewel he
would never abandon a fight so hopeful
He said that while it might be true that
no Republican could be selected for
United States Senator to succeed him
while the Democrats held their present
Illegal control of the House, it was equally
certain that no Democrat in the State
could secure the unanimous vote of his par
ty for the same office. He declared that the
worst i'll luck that could befall him would
be the failure of the joint session to elect
at all, in which event there would be
thrust upon him the necessity of making
the same fight at the polls next fall as was
made last November. But withdraw
from the fight now he would not, and he
had never even considered such pro-
position.
The bolt of Speaker Baird calls to
mind other bolts in this State of some
consequence, and the Speaker can study
the precedent and decide that he has COM
mitted political suicide A score of years
ago Assemblyman Valentine, of Warren,
bolted his party GA a measure to reappor-
ton the State in the interest of the Demo-
Gratis, when he was roundly denounced.
Ever afterward he lived 10 obscurity.
Next Senator Norcross, of Burlington,
bolted the Republican caucus TO elect his
father-in- law Secretary of the Senate, and
the President and and all the other officers
elected were Democrats. his vote bringing
about that result. When Commodore
Stockton was u candidate for United
States Senator, about thirty years ago,
three Democrats bolted the caucus and re-
fused to vote for him because be was
railroad officer. But the Commodore got
there by buying two Wings. Two years
ago Senators Schenck, of Middlesex, aud
Youngblood. of Morris, boiled the Repub-
lican caucus, and with the aid of the Dem
ocrats Schenck was elected President of
the Senate All the other officers elected,
however, were Republicans, but the Dem
ocrats were given one-half the committees.
1t is remarkable fact that all the boilers.
soon faded from public view and never
again took part 10 State politics Salem
Sunbeam.